Example sentences of "he be among " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is among the least ego-bound of book-writers , the least ego-bound of autobiographers , at all times able to look beyond himself and his community . |
| 2 | Vaclav Havel is a hero to the assembly-line workers at the Skoda car plant as much as he is among the country 's students . |
| 3 | Havel is a hero to the assembly-line workers at the Skoda car plant as much as he is among the country 's students . |
| 4 | He is among those who are also learning Tibetan because most of the teachings have n't been translated into English , he says . |
| 5 | He is among at least 35,000 Scots now without a home . |
| 6 | He is among the best directors in the world and among the most in demand . |
| 7 | He was among the first to champion Eliot . |
| 8 | He was among the first to exploit the fact that living nerve fibres pick up and transport protein molecules like the enzyme horseradish peroxidase , whose presence is easily demonstrated and so acts as a marker . |
| 9 | He was among the hundreds of thousands of people who had already posted their application forms . |
| 10 | He was among the first to welcome the radical reforms launched by Mrs Thatcher , especially in curbing the entrenched legal privileges of the trade unions . |
| 11 | He was among the first to respond to the call to the colours in the 1st World War and the outcome was clear . |
| 12 | Dedicated work in the nets resulted in such an improvement in his batting that he was among the top five scorers in the Cup with 383 runs at 47.87 , including his maiden century against the Leewards , Curtly Ambrose et al . |
| 13 | A platoon commander in the 3rd Parachute Battalion , he was among the only company of Allied soldiers to reach the bridge where he and his comrades came under heavy fire . |
| 14 | Then once more he would ask himself whether he was among the Elect or whether the Day of Grace might have already come and gone . |
| 15 | GERVAIS SINDAKIRA : he was among 11 agricultural workers at Kanyosha Minor Seminary , a Roman Catholic boarding school on the outskirts of the capital , Bujumbura , who were extrajudicially executed by government troops on 27 November 1991 . |
| 16 | FAKY ALI AHMAT : a 52-year-old Koranic teacher , he was among six people , including a 14-year-old boy , who were killed instantly on 1 August when members of Chad 's National Gendarmerie opened fire on a group of people attending Koranic lessons at a mosque in Diguel-Est , a suburb of the capital , N'Djamena . |
| 17 | Quite a few prominent people were to pay for that series defeat and it must have been a cruel disappointment for Mains that he was among those replaced . |
| 18 | He was among the last representatives of this kind of Anglo-French noble before the Hundred Years War , and the peace that subsisted between 1303 and 1324 enabled him to remain loyal to both his overlords . |
| 19 | He was among the founders of the Association of Cricket Statisticians in 1973 , playing a prominent role in their series of publications on the players of each first-class county and producing the A to Z of Cricket Records in 1976 : ‘ I had seen a book on the football records and persuaded the publisher to try a similar volume on cricket records — not only listing them by explaining them . |
| 20 | Alexei had risen before the sun broke the horizon , and because he was engaged to wait upon Jehana at the house of her father — a public display to advertise the fact of their intended betrothal which was designed , he guessed , to make it believable — he was among the first to witness the damage which the teams of wrights and carpenters now laboured to repair . |
| 21 | ‘ Mr Boyd was engaged , in 1745 — 6 , on the same side with many unfortunate mistaken noblemen and gentlemen ’ — meaning he was among those on the Stuart side at Culloden and elsewhere . |
| 22 | He was among the first generation of British artists to respond favourably , through their own art , to the ideas of Picasso , Braque , Miro and their circle . |
| 23 | He had his revenge in March 1322 , when he was among the royalist army which defeated Lancaster at Boroughbridge . |
| 24 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
| 25 | In November 1444 he was among the knights in the English party which went to France to witness the proxy wedding of Henry VI with Margaret of Anjou [ qq.v. ] , and is mentioned as a participant in the dress rehearsal of her royal entry into Rouen in 1445 . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , he greeted the Revolution with relief : in the Convention Parliament he was among the first to support William 's coup , although he saw it as crucial to take the opportunity to make England 's liberties more secure . |
| 27 | He was among the better educated of the early Methodist preachers and more sober than some in his attitude to supernatural phenomena . |
| 28 | He was among the first to introduce the French style of plein-air landscape painting of the 1830s to London . |
| 29 | Also , as a means of diffusing his own publications , this time through advertisement , he was among the backers in 1788 of the first evening daily , the Star and Evening Advertiser ; it created a precedent in offering a copy service to others . |
| 30 | He was among the pioneering ‘ Seven Men ’ of Preston who signed the pledge of total abstinence in that year . |